How to Protect Dedicated Server Hosting Just Like a Professional?

When businesses choose dedicated server hosting, what they indeed choose are extreme scalability, flexibility, and security. There is no doubt that you get far greater secured environment than shared hosting solutions, there are still chances of security issues. In this blog post, these security concerns will be dealt with by providing added adequate security solutions. There are three distinct areas through which protection can be guaranteed and they are through securing server administration, anti spyware protection, and disabling PHP related vulnerabilities.

To make these processes easier, there are certain dedicated servers hosting plans of many dedicated server hosting services that offer pre-built Identity API for developers. What a business has to do in these cases is build a powerful authorization, authentication, and user management application (for both online and mobile devices) so that the entire process becomes easier. For protecting dedicated servers like pros, businesses can undertake certain additional steps of protection in the fields of server administration, anti-spyware, and PHP vulnerabilities.

Let’s start the discussion by providing important tips on server administration –

#1 The first thing a business, having chosen dedicated server hosting plan, should do is choose an interface that is protected only byTDS for administering server. Following this step is extremely important because it helps users thwart any attempt of stealing server login information. This is ensured through traffic encryption between computers and server.

Use trusted computers:

#2 Using only trusted computers and networks for administering servers can be other ways of dealing with the security concerns like a pro.

Free from Malware:

#3 When you are using networks as well as computers to administer server. It must be ensure that they are free from any kind of malware. This is because malware are the most nefarious elements that can make the entire system vulnerable to cyber attacks. It has been seen that malware are the most common sources through which login details are accessed by the cyber attackers. If you can secure this area. You already place yourself ahead of the cyber attackers in terms of security. As the crooks are not able to access the server login details anymore.

SSH Port:

#4 Almost anyone who has the slightest knowledge of servers know that 22 is the default SSH port. So, whatever SSH port you choose, always choose the one that is different from 22. By choosing anything other than 22, you are creating another level of security. Otherwise, the brute forces could have easily accessed the login data by using the default SSH port.

anti-spyware protection:

#5 Now, another level of security that you may add to your dedicated server hosting is through use of anti-spyware protection. If you really want to provide high level security to the dedicated server. You are using, choosing the right anti-spyware holds the key. More important that just choosing the best anti-spyware is the requirement of updating the anti-spyware software to the latest version. This ensures that your server remains protect from all kinds of spywares, even from the ones that are created recently.

Disable PHP vulnerabilities:

#6 Another layer of protection can be given in dedicated server hosting and it can be done by disabling all PHP vulnerabilities. There are many PHP settings that are either not used (and hence can be disabled without much ado) or are susceptible to security threats.

In this section, there are two specific instances, which we’ll discuss –

A) allow_url_include ­–

This setting is not usually required by PHPapplications. Therefore, there will hardly be any issue if it is disabled for achieving better security.

B) allow_url_fopen –

There are indeed some PHP applications that need allow_url_fopen. This particular PHP setting is considered susceptible to security threats. Therefore, it should be disabled with utmost urgency. Before the cyber criminals crack the server security and access private information shared by the users. To avoid any such thing, the best approach is to disable allow_url_fopen PHP setting. Once it is done, this will provide your dedicated server hosting another layer of security against the cyber criminals.

#7 Another simple but most forgotten security protocol is regarding the password. It has been found that many users use the most common passwords that can be guessed most easily. This makes the server security vulnerable to external cyber criminal attacks.